French Trade Unionists gathered in Paris’ Opera Square on Wednesday, to demonstrate against French President Emmanuel Macron’s planned labor and tax reforms. Hundreds of protesters brandished red smoke canisters as they marched to the Ministry of Labor, carrying flags and banners. Protesters claim that the cuts implemented by Macron’s reforms of the labor market, will […]

Yanghee Lee, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, was informed Wednesday all access to the country has been denied and cooperation withdrawn for the duration of her tenure, the UN said in a statement. Myanmar has banned a United Nations official investigating the ongoing crackdown in Rakhine State from the […]

US President Donald Trump has threatened to cut financial aid to countries that vote in favor of a draft United Nations resolution against his decision to recognize Al-Quds (Jerusalem) as Israeli regime’s capital. “They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we’re watching those […]

Joanne Adamson, the EU ambassador to the UN, said on Tuesday that the 2015 nuclear deal is “achievement of multilateral diplomacy.” The nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was signed between Iran, the European Union, Germany and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – the United States, […]

Russia says it will do its best to return the situation around Jerusalem al-Quds to a constructive track, a day after the US vetoed a UN Security Council resolution aimed at annulling US President Donald Trump’s controversial move to recognize the city as Israel’s “capital.”  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made the remarks in a meeting with Nabil […]

The Kremlin says it is taking protective measures in preparation for potential new sanctions on Russia by the United States and its allies, which Moscow says would be “illegal.” “We are working on and taking measures aimed at defending our interests against a backdrop of possible new restrictive actions and sanctions by various countries, which […]

Germany should learn from security shortcomings exposed by a deadly truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market a year ago and increase aid to survivors and families of victims, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday. Anis Amri, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker with extremist links, hijacked a truck on Dec. 19, 2016, killed the driver […]

The US Senate has narrowly passed a tax overhaul bill, the most sweeping rewrite of the nation’s tax laws in over three decades. The Republican-led Senate, in the early hours of Wednesday, approved the $1.5-trillion tax legislation, which includes permanent tax breaks for corporations and temporary tax cuts for individuals. With all Democrats united in […]

The European Union (EU)’s executive branch may start an unprecedented disciplinary process against Poland over its judicial reforms, which the EU says are in violation of the bloc’s human rights and democratic values. The European Commission intends to invoke the never-before-used Article 7 of the EU’s founding Lisbon Treaty in its bid to punish Warsaw over […]

The Arab League has lashed out at the US for vetoing a UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution which called for annulment of Washington’s controversial recognition of Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel’s capital. On Tuesday, Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit expressed discontent over the US veto against the draft, saying the measure will lead to […]